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KPIT Cummins is a product engineering

Product engineering

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and IT consulting company providing solutions and services to the Manufacturing

Manufacturing

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, Automotive, Industrial Equipments, Utilities and Semiconductor

Semiconductor

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companies. It is headquartered in Pune India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

and has offices in 11 countries including the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

, China

China

Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...

, India

India

, France

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

, South Africa

South Africa

The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...

, Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

, United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

, Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

, Singapore

Singapore

Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...

and Korea

Korea

Korea ) is an East Asian geographic region that is currently divided into two separate sovereign states — North Korea and South Korea. Located on the Korean Peninsula, Korea is bordered by the People's Republic of China to the northwest, Russia to the northeast, and is separated from Japan to the...

. Worldwide KPIT Cummins has over 6500 employees.

Quick Facts

Offices in 11 countries
6500 employees
155+ customers
Among BEST 5 companies by Industry focus: Automotive - International Association of Outsourcing Professionals (IAOP), (2009)
Among top 10 Engineering Services Vendors - Global Services 100 (2010)
A specialist provider having strong Intellectual Property
Intellectual property
Intellectual property is a term referring to a number of distinct types of creations of the mind for which a set of exclusive rights are recognized—and the corresponding fields of law...

for various automotive processes
Process (engineering)
In engineering a process is a set of interrelated tasks that, together, transform inputs into outputs. These tasks may be carried out by people, nature, or machines using resources; so an engineering process must be considered in the context of the agents carrying out the tasks, and the resource...

from design to customer data. - Forrester Research
Forrester Research
Forrester Research is an independent technology and market research company that provides its clients with advice about technology's impact on business and consumers. Forrester Research has five research centers in the US: Cambridge, Massachusetts; New York, New York; San Francisco, California;...

(2010)
KPIT Cummins are specialists in product engineering
Product engineering
Product engineering refers to the process of designing and developing a device, assembly, or system such that it be produced as an item for sale through some production manufacturing process. Product engineering usually entails activity dealing with issues of cost, producibility, quality,...

design and one of the world’s leading automotive software developers. - Strategy Analytics Blog (2010) http://blogs.strategyanalytics.com/auto/?p=114

History

KPIT Cummins started as a financial auditing firm decades before moving into the field of software. Close to late 80s they started developing software for banks and financial firms and went on to expand in other domains like manufacturing. Today, KPIT Cummins is one of the fastest growing IT and Engineering Services provider globally.

KPIT Cummins is focused on key verticals of Automotive, Manufacturing and Energy and Utilities.

Profit centers

Key industries

Manufacturing
Manufacturing
Manufacturing is the use of machines, tools and labor to produce goods for use or sale. The term may refer to a range of human activity, from handicraft to high tech, but is most commonly applied to industrial production, in which raw materials are transformed into finished goods on a large scale...
Automotive
Automotive industry
The automotive industry designs, develops, manufactures, markets, and sells motor vehicles, and is one of the world's most important economic sectors by revenue....
Semiconductor
Semiconductor
A semiconductor is a material with electrical conductivity due to electron flow intermediate in magnitude between that of a conductor and an insulator. This means a conductivity roughly in the range of 103 to 10−8 siemens per centimeter...
High Tech
High tech
High tech is technology that is at the cutting edge: the most advanced technology currently available. It is often used in reference to micro-electronics, rather than other technologies. The adjective form is hyphenated: high-tech or high-technology...
Energy & Utilities
Energy industry
The energy industry is the totality of all of the industries involved in the production and sale of energy, including fuel extraction, manufacturing, refining and distribution...
Transportation industry
Government
Government
Government refers to the legislators, administrators, and arbitrators in the administrative bureaucracy who control a state at a given time, and to the system of government by which they are organized...
Defense
Defense contractor
A defense contractor is a business organization or individual that provides products or services to a military department of a government. Products typically include military aircraft, ships, vehicles, weaponry, and electronic systems...

Key offerings

Automotive Engineering
Automotive engineering
Modern automotive engineering, along with aerospace engineering and marine engineering, is a branch of vehicle engineering, incorporating elements of mechanical, electrical, electronic, software and safety engineering as applied to the design, manufacture and operation of motorcycles, automobiles,...
Automotive Electronics Software
Mechanical Engineering Design
Mechanical engineering technology
Mechanical engineering technology is the application of physical principles and current technological developments to the creation of useful machinery and operation design. Technologies such as solid models may be used as the basis for finite element analysis and / or computational fluid dynamics ...
Chip Design
Integrated circuit
An integrated circuit or monolithic integrated circuit is an electronic circuit manufactured by the patterned diffusion of trace elements into the surface of a thin substrate of semiconductor material...
Embedded Software
Embedded software
Embedded software is computer software that plays an integral role in the electronics it is supplied with.Embedded software's principal role is not Information technology , but rather the interaction with the physical world. It's written for machines that are not, first and foremost, computers...
Business Process Management
Business process management
Business process management is a holistic management approach focused on aligning all aspects of an organization with the wants and needs of clients. It promotes business effectiveness and efficiency while striving for innovation, flexibility, and integration with technology. BPM attempts to...
Business Intelligence
Business intelligence
Business intelligence mainly refers to computer-based techniques used in identifying, extracting, and analyzing business data, such as sales revenue by products and/or departments, or by associated costs and incomes....
Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance
Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance
Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance or GRC is the umbrella term covering an organization's approach across these three areas. Being closely related concerns, governance, risk and compliance activities are increasingly being integrated and aligned to some extent in order to avoid conflicts,...
Supply Chain
Supply chain
A supply chain is a system of organizations, people, technology, activities, information and resources involved in moving a product or service from supplier to customer. Supply chain activities transform natural resources, raw materials and components into a finished product that is delivered to...

Consulting
Customer Relationship Management
Customer relationship management
Customer relationship management is a widely implemented strategy for managing a company’s interactions with customers, clients and sales prospects. It involves using technology to organize, automate, and synchronize business processes—principally sales activities, but also those for marketing,...

(CRM)
IT Strategy
Enterprise Resource Planning
Enterprise resource planning
Enterprise resource planning systems integrate internal and external management information across an entire organization, embracing finance/accounting, manufacturing, sales and service, customer relationship management, etc. ERP systems automate this activity with an integrated software application...

(ERP)
E-Business
Enterprise Application Integration
Enterprise application integration
Enterprise Application Integration is defined as the use of software and computer systems architectural principles to integrate a set of enterprise computer applications.- Overview :...

(EAI)
Knowledge Process Outsourcing
Knowledge process outsourcing
Knowledge process outsourcing is a form of outsourcing, in which knowledge-related and information-related work is carried out by workers in a different company or by a subsidiary of the same organization, which may be in the same country or in an offshore location to save cost...

(KPO)

Research and development

The Center for Research in Engineering Sciences and Technology (CREST) is the Research and Development

Research and development

The phrase research and development , according to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, refers to "creative work undertaken on a systematic basis in order to increase the stock of knowledge, including knowledge of man, culture and society, and the use of this stock of...

department of KPIT Cummins. It is focused on innovation

Innovation

Innovation is the creation of better or more effective products, processes, technologies, or ideas that are accepted by markets, governments, and society...

, technology, and R&D

Research and development

in emerging technologies. The CREST team files patents and publishes research papers in international conferences. CREST has filed 37 global patents so far.

Partnerships

Enterprise IT
Application software
Application software, also known as an application or an "app", is computer software designed to help the user to perform specific tasks. Examples include enterprise software, accounting software, office suites, graphics software and media players. Many application programs deal principally with...

- SAP

SAP AG

SAP AG is a German software corporation that makes enterprise software to manage business operations and customer relations. Headquartered in Walldorf, Baden-Württemberg, with regional offices around the world, SAP is the market leader in enterprise application software...

Gold Channel partner India

- SAP Services partner

- Apriso Solution partner for Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES)

- Member of Oracle Partner Network

Automotive
Automotive industry
The automotive industry designs, develops, manufactures, markets, and sells motor vehicles, and is one of the world's most important economic sectors by revenue....

- Partnership with VaST for delivering Virtualization Tools and Services

- Premium membership with Automotive Open System Architecture (AUTOSAR

AUTOSAR

AUTOSAR is an open and standardized automotive software architecture, jointly developed by automobile manufacturers, suppliers and tool developers...

)

- Premium membership with Japan Automotive Software Platform Architecture (JasPar)

- Membership of GENIVI (In-Vehicle Infotainment

Infotainment

Infotainment is "information-based media content or programming that also includes entertainment content in an effort to enhance popularity with audiences and consumers." It is a neologistic portmanteau of information and entertainment, referring to a type of media which provides a combination of...

(IVI) reference platform)

Semiconductor
Semiconductor
A semiconductor is a material with electrical conductivity due to electron flow intermediate in magnitude between that of a conductor and an insulator. This means a conductivity roughly in the range of 103 to 10−8 siemens per centimeter...

Solutions

- Member of ARM

ARM architecture

ARM is a 32-bit reduced instruction set computer instruction set architecture developed by ARM Holdings. It was named the Advanced RISC Machine, and before that, the Acorn RISC Machine. The ARM architecture is the most widely used 32-bit ISA in numbers produced...

Connected Community

- Founder member of India Semiconductor Association ISA

ISA

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Timeline

Date:	Event:
1990	KPIT Infosystems incorporated by a group of CPA Certified Public Accountant Certified Public Accountant is the statutory title of qualified accountants in the United States who have passed the Uniform Certified Public Accountant Examination and have met additional state education and experience requirements for certification as a CPA... s
1994–1998	Excellence in exports award from Government of India
1995–1996	Outstanding achievement award from Oracle Oracle Corporation Oracle Corporation is an American multinational computer technology corporation that specializes in developing and marketing hardware systems and enterprise software products – particularly database management systems...
1997	Achieved ISO 9001, certified by KPMG KPMG KPMG is one of the largest professional services networks in the world and one of the Big Four auditors, along with Deloitte, Ernst & Young and PwC. Its global headquarters is located in Amstelveen, Netherlands....
1999	IPO: 42 times oversubscribed. Became a public limited company Public limited company A public limited company is a limited liability company that sells shares to the public in United Kingdom company law, in the Republic of Ireland and Commonwealth jurisdictions.... in India
2002	Merger of Cummins Cummins Cummins Inc. is a Fortune 500 corporation that designs, manufactures, distributes and services engines and related technologies, including fuel systems, controls, air handling, filtration, emission control and electrical power generation systems... Infotech into KPIT Infosystems to KPIT Cummins Infosystems Limited
2004	ISO 9001:2000 Acquisition of Panex Consulting – USA
2005	Lehman Brothers Lehman Brothers Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. was a global financial services firm. Before declaring bankruptcy in 2008, Lehman was the fourth largest investment bank in the USA , doing business in investment banking, equity and fixed-income sales and trading Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. (former NYSE ticker... take 8% stake in KPIT Cummins. Integrated all offshore facilities in Pune, India into the state of the art campus at Hinjawadi Hinjawadi Hinjewadi or Hinjawadi or Hinjwadi was a small village on the NH4 bypass around the City of Pune in India. Now it's the Place for Rajiv Gandhi Infotech Park housing around 20 software companies as listed below.... . Acquisition of SolvCentral.com – USA. Acquisition of Pivolis.com – France.
2006	Acquisition of CG Smith, India
2007	Achieved corporate mission of being a USD $100 million company by the financial year 2006-2007 Strategic investment by Cargill Ventures, a venture capital Venture capital Venture capital is financial capital provided to early-stage, high-potential, high risk, growth startup companies. The venture capital fund makes money by owning equity in the companies it invests in, which usually have a novel technology or business model in high technology industries, such as... arm of Cargill Inc.
2008	Acquisition of Mechanical Design Services business of Harita TVS Technologies, India.
2009	Acquisition of Sparta Consultin - California, USA based firm leading provider of high end SAP solutions
2010	Acquisition of CPG Solutions - Boca Raton, USA based Oracle Applications Consulting Expertise
2010	Acquisition of In2Soft GmBH - Berlin, Germany based Vehicle Diagnostics and telematics specialists
2010	Acquisition of SYSTIME-Mumbai
2011	Diversified Financial Services(under IES) sold to Infrasoft Technologies Ltd.

Mergers and Acquisitions

1) Cummins
Cummins
Cummins Inc. is a Fortune 500 corporation that designs, manufactures, distributes and services engines and related technologies, including fuel systems, controls, air handling, filtration, emission control and electrical power generation systems...

Infotech Ltd. (2002) - Merger with Cummins Infotech Limited

Software development arm of Cummins Inc. - the worlds largest producer of diesel engine

Diesel engine

A diesel engine is an internal combustion engine that uses the heat of compression to initiate ignition to burn the fuel, which is injected into the combustion chamber...

s

2) Panex Consulting Inc. (2003) - Acquisition of Panex Consulting Inc., USA

SAP implementation services in Business Intelligence & Data Warehousing space

3) SolvCentral.com (2005) - Acquisition of SolvCentral.com

A leading Business Intelligence services and products company

4) Pivolis.com (2005) - Acquisition of Pivolis.com, France

Leading outsourcing consultancy

5) CG Smith Software Pvt. Ltd. (2006) - Acquisition of CG Smith Software Pvt. Ltd.

Leading Automotive Electronics Software & Solutions company and a member of AUTOSAR

6) Harita TVS (2008) - Acquisition of Mechanical Design Services Business of Harita TVS Technologies

Engineering Design Services Company catering to Automotive and Construction & Industrial Machinery.
7) Sparta Consulting (2009) - Acquisition of California, USA based firm leading provider of high end SAP solutions.

8) CPG Solutions (2010) - Acquisition of US based firm, a provider of Oracle consulting services to manufacturing and supply chain companies.

9) In2Soft GmBH (2010) - Acquisition of Berlin, German based vehicle diagnostics and telematics specialist In2Soft Gmbh.

10) KPIT Cummins Infosystems sold the Diversified Financial Services business under IES to Infrasoft Technologies Ltd. in July 2011. Along with that 140 employees across different locations working in Diversified Financial Services of KPIT were moved to Infrasoft Technologies Ltd.

Leadership Team

Name	Job Title
Ravi Pandit	Chairman and Group CEO
Kishor Patil	CEO & Managing Director

Corporate Social Responsibility

KPIT Cummins gives:

- Scholarships are awarded to female students of the Bhagini Nivedita Pratishthan for computer related training

- Donations of computers to villages surrounding Pune has also helped increase the rural areas awareness of health issues, education, government programs as well as agricultural information

- Runs various in house donation drives on event of calamities.

- Hardware and software support to not-for-profit organizations in the United States of America (USA) Columbus Indiana

- Participates in School kit donation drives run by Social Group Seva Sahyog.

- Connects with local NGO Surajya for various social activities mainly imparting knowledge to needy section of society.

KPIT Cummins participates and hosts:

- Blood donation drives with the help of Jana Kalyan Rakta Pedhi and Deenanath Mangeshkar Hospital on the Hinjawadi premises

- Donation drive for the Nav Maharashtra Community Foundation (Navam), a non-profit organization that supports innovative community projects in rural Maharashtra

- Clothes donation drive where boxes of clothes are collected and donated to volunteer agencies, SOS children villages, orphanages and other institutions

- World Environment Day = annual tree plantation drive

- Children’s Day = toys are collected and donated to various adoption centers and orphanages

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